Mrs.

Cook’s Surf Report

acook@mbusd.org Week of 9/19-9/23 mrsamycook.weebly.com
Volunteers: What We’re Learning:
It was lovely getting to meet you Reading Workshop: This week, we will begin our first unit in
last night! I’m looking forward to a Reading Workshop called Interpreting Characters: The Heart
wonderful school year with your of the Story (fiction). Comprehension strategies will be
child and thank you for your modeled while I read The Tiger Rising aloud to the class
collaboration and support! during our mini-lessons.
PTA & MBEF Donations: Writing Workshop: This week, we will continue our writing
Together we are Pacific strong! workshop unit called The Arc of the Story: Writing Realistic
We appreciate any donations that Fiction. The first bend entails generating ideas in our
you can give during these tough notebooks by observing the world around us and creating
times. Our schools need it more
stories we wish existed.
than ever. Click here to join: Join
Math: Chapter 2- Multiply by 1-Digit Numbers- Students will
PTA Here MBEF Suggested
Donations Per Child: • PTA $415 • develop understanding and fluency with multi-digit
MBEF $2000 • Minimum donation multiplication, and developing understanding of dividing to find
$15 Join MBEF here quotients involving multidigit dividends.
I am a bit competitive, and I Science: Students will learn the faster a given object is
would love to be one of the first moving, the more energy it possesses. Energy can be moved
teachers to reach 100% from place to place by moving objects or through sound,
membership participation in the light, or electric currents.
PTA! :-) WE ARE AT 50% Social Studies: Students will learn about World Geography and
Enrich Math: discover how California fits into our big world.
I shared with the class that ALL Mark Your Calendars:
students are invited to participate ü Friday, September 23rd- Movie Night 5:00 pm
in the optional Enrich homework ü Monday, September 26th- Rosh Hashanah; No School
program. With that being said, ü Wednesday, October 5th- Yom Kippur; No School
scoring 90% on the Ch. 1 math test ü Friday, October 7th- PTA Membership drive ends
is a good threshold to support a ü Monday, October 31st- Halloween Parade
need for challenge. I leave the
choice to participate up to you Spelling Connections 4: Wordly Wise 2:
1. Field
and your child. I also highly 1. Affect
recommend having your child work 2. Lead
on IXL math lessons to reinforce 3. Speed 2. Calculate
new math concepts at home. 4. Believe 3. Climate
When they login through Clever 5. Deal
they will find the recommended 4. Column
6. Piece
lessons. Xtra math (fluency) can
7. Reach 5. Decay
also be accessed through Clever.
8. Breeze 6. Exceed
Upcoming Quizzes/Tests: 9. Speak 7. Forbid
Wordly Wise 2 9/23 10. Agree
11. Least 8. Grove
Grammar 4
CA Geography
9/23
9/23 12. Season Not 9. Limb Test 9/23
Panther Praise- Respectful:
13. Between
14. Chief tested 10. Mammoth
Liam 15. Steam 11. Mature
Big Kahuna: 16. Degree 12. Permit
Carter 17. Reason 13. Resist
September Birthdays: 18. Brief
19. Repeat 14. Scorch
Sophie 9/9
20. Peach 15. Tower